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Whoa. What iOS apps do this?

• philsnow 6y ago
  > What iOS apps do this? What iOS apps (that you've given access to your photos) can you have any confidence don't do this?
  • clankyclanker 6y ago
    It’s too bad. You used to be able to have some confidence, sometimes: https://www.engadget.com/2011-01-09-the-gpl-the-app-store-and-you.html https://www.engadget.com/2011-01-09-the-gpl-the-app-store-an...
• deleted 6y ago
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• Razengan 6y ago
  WhatsApp and some others keep trying to access photos, because I keep getting an prompt asking me if I want to choose more photos every so often even when I'm not trying to do anything with photos. Many apps including Discord repeatedly snoop the clipboard/pasteboard even when I don't paste anything, and wouldn't know about if iOS 14 didn't alert me. Then there's the major apps secretly accessing the camera and microphone, exposed by the green/orange indicator light in iOS 14: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/07/25/instagram-unexpectedly-accessing-camera/ https://www.macrumors.com/2020/07/25/instagram-unexpectedly-... Surprise, these are the people fighting against Apple.